2017: The year in pettiness

No one was content to take the high road in 2017 (Yahoo Sports illustration)

From 28-3 to Kevin Durant’s Oklahoma City welcome to Baker Mayfield’s crotch-grabbing antics, this past year saw pettiness reign supreme in the world of sports. Let’s recap the best of the best of a wild, and salty, year.

The Trump effect

Politics and sports have always been intertwined, but 2017 saw a sitting U.S. president wage wars against multiple superstar athletes, their fathers, and entire sports leagues. Here are just a few of his sports targets:

The pettiest of all his tirades was when he announced, via Twitter of course, that he was un-inviting the Warriors from the White House after Stephen Curryalready said he would not attend. Seriously, this is like deleting your friend from the Facebook event after they’ve already RSVPed “No.”

The incident gave us one of the best, nay, the best, tweet in the history of Twitter dot com.

U bum @StephenCurry30 already said he ain't going! So therefore ain't no invite. Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!